Ça va commencer pour de vrai dans quelques jours.../ I will start in few days !

I fed the birds this morning. The crows happily absconded with the residual suet I put on the fence. The downy woodpecker quickly appeared to test the new cakes. The squirrels were practicing wrestling moves. And Sebastian was talking to them all through the screen door. Life continues.

There is a new #pineapple growing in my #backyard.
#photography

Meet the squirrel my kid named "No Tail" for fairly obvious reasons. He's much more skittish than our other visitors, probably for the same reason.

Deer + snow dregs. I'm guessing the deer enjoyed the bird feeder refill but I didn't catch them at it.

I only saw 4 today, but there were 5 deer the other day so there may be another one in the photo that I didn't spot.

the 51st shade of gray, this Mockingbird really doesn't like anybody...

Guara--a delicate perennial this Old Coot added to the garden last spring. #guara #perennial #perennials #flowers #flowers #posie #posies #garden #gardener #gardening #pennsylvaniagarden #pennsylvaniagardens #nature #outdoors #backyard

Okay, I hate to admit this, but transparency matters:

If you live in Northern California and are wondering why there are no finches where you live...<takes deep breath>...they are all at the sock feeder in our yard.

We are about to fill the feeder for the second time in a week.

Happy Thursday!

More #Canadian #prairie #jackrabbits (again, actually a kind of #hare, not #rabbit...) from my wintry yard today.

These two handsome fellers (or gals, who knows?) are in the front yard, looking at me through my open front door. One's got a skinnier head than the other. Dunno if that tells me anything. They all keep some dark markings on their ears and nose when they turn white for the winter, but there's a lot of variety in terms of how much and where else they keep a bit of colour.

Again, these are probably Lepus townsendii, the White-tailed Jackrabbit. There are also Lepus americanus, the Snowshoe Hare, in the prairies, but I think they're mostly further north than me, up where the trees start in what we call the "parkland" area. I'm in the middle of the "grain belt", which is bald prairie for the most part.

I have a bunch more of these, plus some videos which need trimming. Captioning these takes some effort so it might take me a while to work through them.

#wildlife #yard #backyard #animal #bunny #SK Canada #winter #jacks

A mild tropical Boxing Day in the #backyard . #Springindecember #climatechange #annonacherimola #photography

I Think I Buried The Peanut Here by Debra Martz
The little backyard thieves bury the birds' peanuts for winter food and then attempt to find them under the deep snow. (This was a previous winter as we've had no snow yet this year.)

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/i-think-i-buried-the-peanut-here-debra-martz.html

The plum tree knows better, she has seen six decades of nature's seasons. She's already (un)dressed for the Winter. The young potted daisies think it's Spring again, in November. #photography #flora #backyard #Autumn #oldtrees #florawisdom #climatechange

They think it's Spring in November... #photography #flora #backyard #Autumn #climatechange